You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn.

If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.